This is quite upsetting, especially for Americans and those citizens of other nations with respect for national sovereignty. This is another instance of granting excessive authority to an international organization of questionable political legitimacy (like the WTO). Whatever benefits of international cooperation and consultation the United Nations has made possible, it has from its questionable (some would say much worse...)founding been a source of dangerously naïve globalist dreams. Americans must reject utterly the policy of establishing UNELECTED international bodies who behave as though they have jurisdiction in the United States. I hope citizens of other countries feel similarly about their sovereignty, and act to reject this dangerous notion. As far as Americans are concerned, we ought not stand for any regulation of the internet that doesn't result from duly elected representatives of the American people.
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This is quite upsetting, especially for Americans and those citizens of other nations with respect for national sovereignty. This is another instance of granting excessive authority to an international organization of questionable political legitimacy (like the WTO). Whatever benefits of international cooperation and consultation the United Nations has made possible, it has from its questionable (some would say much worse...)founding been a source of dangerously naïve globalist dreams. Americans must reject utterly the policy of establishing UNELECTED international bodies who behave as though they have jurisdiction in the United States. I hope citizens of other countries feel similarly about their sovereignty, and act to reject this dangerous notion. As far as Americans are concerned, we ought not stand for any regulation of the internet that doesn't result from duly elected representatives of the American people.